Digital. Because it’s cheaper and even cheaper with 80% percent sales etc.

the drive still reads blurays without problem. It just won't read my Diablo 3 disc.

I would recommend the Series X as you can also fiddle with emulators if you wish, aswell as being able to play old Xbox and Xbox 360 games, as well as game pass. The series X is also incredible and it is a beast.

I go for a mix of both. But then I dump them as either roms or isos and play them on a soft modded console. I swore off purchasing games digitally a while ago.

Discs can't just die because of how they're professionally pressed. Basically data on the disk is represented by tiny holes or pits physically present in the thread of the data layer. Something had to have happened to the disc if it's not working anymore.

How long ago was your last console and what was it? I have a young family and can only play in spurts. But if cost isn’t an issue, when you see forza horizon in hd for the first time it will take your breath away. Halo and cod multiplayer, although not on your list, are as addictive as crack. Completely mindless shooting games that you can play in 20-30 min bursts and put down. I still have a switch, and Mario kart and odyssey scratched an itch for a long time, but like I said, when I loaded forza horizon for the first time, I felt like it was real life. I haven’t played my switch ever again.

Oh and I totally forgot, not sure how old you are, but goldeneye 64 is on game pass now.

Series X is a lot of money to address the concerns you've got to be honest.

There are plenty of controllers for the Switch that are similar to an Xbox controller. I personally love the Switch Pro controller.

Also the Series X isn't the only console that will play blurays etc. as well. The PS5 will do that too as well as last gen consoles but honestly you'd pick up a BluRay player to do that for dirt cheap these days as well.

Just my thoughts but if you're unsure about an expensive purchase like this I'd just not get it.

I’m very similar to yourself. Not an avid gamer. I find an hour here or there. I bought the Xbox series X and have been incredibly happy with it. Get the game pass which is £10 a month and you can just chill on any game that takes your fancy that day.

Playing an hour here or there I now have 110 hours in Elden Ring. While I recommend this game I also don’t. Forever tarnished.

Digital cuz theres less chance of it braking and i cant lose it

I have both as well and I’m always back and forth between them, and agree with everything you said. Only thing I’d add to the ps5 con list is coil whine. Drives me insane when playing PS5 games but the XSX is whisper quiet. Find it really off putting, quite surprised it isn’t talked about more.

Did send it to Sony but came back just the same.

you can go to https://www.xbox.com/es-ES/xbox-game-pass/games and check all the games included on gamepass

Personally i would go with the series x because of the things u have already mention, plus theres a way to play retro games on it as well, i do own one myself and to be exact my old xbox one s was my 4k bluray player and now the series x is as well for another room etc

What does

>Sony as a company is a lot more insular compared to Microsoft. They play things very close to the chest, and sometimes it feels like they're very patronizing and even condescending towards their user-base (especially as of late)

mean?

Physical disc, always cost less than digital. Like to have something I can see. Trade in value if required. Also with digital your also only the owner while it’s on the store. If it’s removed and you haven’t got it downloaded you haven’t got it anymore. Same with all store based media (films/tv shows etc) once a licensing deal is up with store owner your done.

I rather physical, but you can't nock those digital deals!

If it's something I really want to keep rather than something I really want to play, I'll get physical. So TOTK, Metroid Prime, Fight Forever, stuff like that will all be physical.

But if it's just something I want to play the handiness of downloading is hard to beat. Even if it's slightly more expensive, it annoys me because they don't have a physical game to produce but I'll still download it.

Physical 100%

Physical for console, so I can sell them while they still have value on their current console.

Digital for PC, for cost saving and to play them anywhere (Like with steam deck)

The GameCube is better. It had a better controller and better games.

Physical as of recent.

I’ve had to revert to a digital Xbox loaned from my brother as my one s slowly died through the pandemic, but now games like black ops 3 for example are de-listed from the Xbox store so I can’t play it until I can finally afford the series x…

Digital because I can't commit to playing just one game, so I need to be able to switch without getting off my couch

Physical.

Because you don’t really own the digital. If they decided to take it off the digital store, you’re sol.

There’s not enough space on my console to keep all my games, so it needs to be deleted if I want to play new games.

Even purchasing cloud space has its limits, games files are huge these days.

If you accidentally break your console, you still have your digital games too.

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> a physical disc will ALWAYS work. it can't be revoked, and it doesn't care if sony/ms/nintendo shut down their servers.

Yes because thievery, property damage, neglect, or time ever occurs that would cause a physical edition to go missing, become ruined due to household catastrophes, misuse/unintentional damage or misplaced, and what the hell even is disc rot?

There is nothing wrong with preferring what you like. But to say it’s without flaws is just ignorant.

I grew up in the late NES to SNES era and had my share of games. What my parents did to them, I do not know. But I was able to amass some of my old collection (as well as others I never had) since then on many platforms from NES, SNES, N64 and Genesis. I still have my original hardware and games from my Playstation 1, 2, 3, PSP, GameCube, Wii, WiiU, Original Xbox, 360 and I still have PC discs going back as far as the original Warcraft and Diablo. But I’ve been mainly digital since the launch of the Xbox One/Playstation 4 and even longer on PC.

I’ve lost a few of my Will-always-work-and-can’t-be-revoked physical games (and some that have become worth a lot more than I ever thought they would) due to some water damage in my previous house. I most likely will never get those expensive ones back. There are games on the Gameboy that I wish I could have enjoyed, but alas, they’re selling for several hundreds of dollars. But with the closing of the 3DS/WiiU eshops, I found out that one of those 300+ gameboy carts can be purchased for the small sum of $4.99 CAD on the eshop. Well fuck me! I bought that in a heartbeat.

And as for more modern purchases, as I’ve said, I’ve been buying digital for well over 10 years, and as far as I know, I still have access to every one of those games that wasn’t limited by an online server (which wouldn’t change with a hard copy). Only, now everywhere I go, as long as I can find hardware that plays the games I’ve made purchases for, I have access to all of my games.

I’ve never been one for trading in my games, I think it’s a scam, but that’s neither here nor there. I’ve only ever sold a handful of my used games, and only because I had a duplicate hard copy or I bought it digitally. So that aspect has never been a consideration for me when I make my purchases.

Both forms of media have their advantages and their disadvantages. But to say one is better than the other, especially because it will “always” do this or have that…well that’s just foolish talk